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15-letter words containing s, i, n, o

  • antiremonstrant — the party that opposed the Remonstrants
  • antiretrovirals — Plural form of antiretroviral.
  • antiromanticism — the opposition to romanticism
  • antisegregation — opposed to or acting against segregration
  • antishoplifting — designed to prevent shoplifting
  • antispeculation — opposed to or acting against excessive oil speculation
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • antivivisection — opposed to the act or practice or performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body
  • aortic stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the aorta, especially of its orifice, usually as a result of rheumatic fever or embryologic anomalies.
  • apolipoproteins — Plural form of apolipoprotein.
  • apostolicalness — The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • apple macintosh — Macintosh
  • appropriateness — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
  • approximateness — The quality of being approximate.
  • aqueous ammonia — ammonia (def 2).
  • aqueous-ammonia — a colorless, pungent, suffocating, highly water-soluble, gaseous compound, NH 3 , usually produced by the direct combination of nitrogen and hydrogen gases: used chiefly for refrigeration and in the manufacture of commercial chemicals and laboratory reagents.
  • archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
  • ariboflavinosis — a condition resulting from a dietary deficiency of riboflavin
  • aristotelianism — a philosophical tradition based on the wide-ranging belief system of Aristotle
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • arrivals lounge — a waiting area for people meeting passengers
  • arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
  • ascending colon — the first portion of the colon, beginning at the cecum in the lower right abdominal cavity and continuing upward along the right posterior abdominal wall to approximately the lower ribs.
  • asian shorthair — a generic term for a group of breeds of short-haired cat of Burmese type, including the Bombay
  • assign a policy — If you assign a policy, you transfer legal ownership of an insurance policy to another person.
  • assimilationism — the theory of promoting the incorporation and mixing of different groups in society
  • assimilationist — a person who favours and promotes the incorporation and mixing of different groups in society
  • association law — any law governing the association of ideas
  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • astronautically — In an astronautic way.
  • astronavigation — celestial navigation
  • at pistol point — being under or using the threat of being shot
  • at short notice — Notice is used in expressions such as 'at short notice', 'at a moment's notice' or 'at twenty-four hours' notice', to indicate that something can or must be done within a short period of time.
  • atlantic salmon — a valuable food and game fish, Salmo salar, mainly of northern coastal Atlantic waters or, when spawning, in freshwater streams tributary to the ocean.
  • atlas mountains — a mountain system of N Africa, between the Mediterranean and the Sahara. Highest peak: Mount Toubkal, 4165 m (13 664 ft)
  • atrabiliousness — The state or quality of being characterized by melancholy or glumness.
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • authentications — Plural form of authentication.
  • autocannibalism — The eating of part of one's own body.
  • autotransfusion — a process in which a patient receives some of his or her own blood in a transfusion rather than a donor's blood
  • bag on the side — An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly, inelegant, or bloated. Also "to hang a bag on the side [of]". "C++? That's just a bag on the side of C." "They want me to hang a bag on the side of the accounting system."
  • balanoposthitis — An inflammation of the glans penis and the prepuce.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • barbizon school — a group of French painters of landscapes of the 1840s, including Théodore Rousseau, Daubigny, Diaz, Corot, and Millet
  • barn conversion — the adaptation of a farm barn into a building serving a different use, such as a house or commercial premises
  • barry mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria: part of the Australian Alps
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • basse-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: consists of the Cherbourg peninsula in the west rising to the Normandy hills in the east; mainly agricultural
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • battle stations — the places to which soldiers, sailors, warships, etc. are assigned for a battle or an emergency
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